“The 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that prisons provide inmates with medically necessary treatment for medical and mental health conditions including inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” the Huffington Post quoted Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections, as stating.

Quine told a prison psychologist who recommended her for the operation that it would bring a “drastic, internal completeness,” the Times reported.

The Times quoted the executive director of the Transgender Law Center as saying the surgery is a victory for “all transgender people who have ever been denied the medical care we need.”